RICOH PX FAQs - By Product

[Question] Can I download images to a computer without installing software? (Windows)

When you connect a USB peripheral device to a computer, a computer will recognize it as a removable device, such as a hard disk drive or a floppy disk, which is called as the USB mass storage or the USB storage class.

Before connections

• If [DC software 2] is installed in the computer, find the DL-10 icon in the taskbar to quite the DL-10 in advance.

Caution for connections

• Do not turn the camera power off or disconnect the USB cable during the image download. The files will not be transferred correctly.

• Do not use the computer to format the SD memory card or the internal memory. Use the camera to format the SD memory card or the internal memory.

• Be sure to stop the connection before removing the USB cable.

• You cannot write data to the internal memory in the camera.

• Only one Ricoh digital camera can be connected to one computer. Do not connect multiple Ricoh cameras to one computer at the same time.

• When downloading images from your camera, load a battery with adequate remaining power in the camera.

• When an SD memory card is inserted in the camera, its files will be displayed as the contents of the drive in [My Computer]. If there is no SD memory card inserted, the files in the internal memory will be displayed as the contents of the drive in [My Computer].

Connect to a Windows computer

1 Turn the camera power off, connect the suplied USB cable to an USB port on the computer.

2 Connect the supplied USB cable to the common terminal for USB port / AV output of the camera (gray).

3 The power of the camera comes on. You will be asked to choose an option for USB connection.
Choose [Computer] option within 30 seconds. Otherwise, the camera will go into the charging mode if no action is taken for 30 seconds.

During charging, the camera controls cannot be used and the camera will not function as a mass storage device. In the case, disconnect the USB cable and start over from step 1.

4 After [Computer] option is selected;

• The file required to recognize the camera as an external drive is automatically loaded.

• Once the preparations have been completed, the camera appears in [My Computer] as a drive.

5 Copy the images from a camera to a certain folder in a computer.

• The folder structures of the drive is shown below.

• If the contents of the SD memory card are displayed, the drive name is [RICOHDCX] (screenshot above). If the contents of the internal memory are displayed, the drive name is [RICOHDCI] (screenshot below).

[Caution]

• If a file with the same name already exists in the download destination, it will be overwritten. If you do not want the existing file to be overwritten, you should download the file to another folder or rename the existing file in the download destination folder.

Disconnect from a Windows computer

4 When the image download has finished, disconnect the camera from the computer.
Double-click on the icon for [Safely Remove Hardware], or for [Unplug or Eject Hardware] on the right end of the task bar. Below are examples but the appearance may vary depending on the OS version.

If the remove hardware icon is not displayed in Windows 7, click icon button in the taskbar.